LLMs suck at generating large, structured data. Tips on how to get your AI agent to do it reliably

LLMs are great at generating text. They're terrible at generating structured data reliably. If you've ever tried to get an agent to produce a JSON object with a specific schema, you know the pain: missing fields, hallucinated keys, inconsistent types, and outputs that break your downstream pipeline. As I got past toy examples and labs to work on real, production-grade AI apps, I faced the problem and found an approach that works remarkably well for an AI app I'm building: use tools like object-...